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...TE Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, described Wadi Rum as “vast, echoing and god-like”. Wadi Rum was a great stage for Lawrence, who wrote of his involvement here in the Arab Revolt....
...From photographs I’ve seen, one of my favourite spaces appears to be a dining pavilion in the villa’s garden, with its beautifully painted murals of flower-bedecked trelliswork by Lawrence Mynott....
...In the meantime you can’t go wrong at Sparrows Lodge, which has been around since long before anyone had the idea for Coachella; MGM Studios actor Don Castle built it in the 1950s and it’s been operating...
...The plot becomes consequently slight, comprising Shrek and Donkey’s walk to and from the castle to save the princess, whom Lord Farquaad demands to marry....
...Sometimes, the barbarians capable of causing the most disruption are not the aggressive foreigners at the gate, but those born inside the castle who know its weak spots....
...Kafka — a great influence on Buzzati — perhaps offers the most apt description of these two men who forgo their present reality for some imagined future: “In that case,” wrote Kafka in his 1926 novel The Castle...
...Inspiration for training vines can be found by strolling under the extensive vine archway in the Edwardian Formal Garden at Powis Castle in Wales....
...Ofili’s portrait of weeping Doreen Lawrence, whose teenage son was murdered, is Britain’s most significant painting about race....
...Belvoir Castle has played host to many film crews – recently it featured in The Crown....
...“The house was built out of the stones of a castle that burned down in the 18th century,” says Ruiz-Picasso’s wife, the gallerist Almine Rech....
...Richard and Dally are another quarrelsome couple who have restored a castle in the Sahara, creating a sort of boutique brothel of earthly delights....
...Munro pitches the action on either side of a contested episode at the Earl of Bothwell’s castle. Was Mary abducted and raped? Or was the sex consensual?...
...Upstairs, the cast of Castle & Castle, the Lagos-set legal procedural that aired its first series on Abudu’s satellite TV channel, is filming series two on a floor that has been mocked up to be the eponymous...
...The islands are understandably similar, yet discerning travellers have found fundamental differences, few more fancifully expressed than by Lawrence Durrell in his 1978 book The Greek Islands....
...After dusk, their silhouette looks to me like the ramparts of a castle, rising darkly over lamplit villages below....
...It has two copper crowns; an Art Deco castle with twin towers....
...Last year, Mr Jones and his wife Gail attended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding at Windsor Castle....
...FT investigation: The darker side of a British tech baron Lawrence Jones is one of Britain’s wealthiest technology entrepreneurs, with an estimated £700m fortune....
...She takes part in a ghost tour at Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, close to the Scottish border, which claims to be one of Britain’s most haunted buildings....
...(FT) FT investigation: The darker side of a British tech baron Lawrence Jones is one of Britain’s wealthiest technology entrepreneurs, with an estimated £700m fortune....
...But the blurring of literary and commercial fiction has made it easier for estates to lure top novelists — last year, Lawrence Osborne wrote a Philip Marlowe novel, Only to Sleep, for the Raymond Chandler...
...At Belfast Castle you can roam around a verdant park alone, looking out on the blue water over which ferries glide towards Scotland....
...from Dante and Petrarch to Wagner and DH Lawrence....
...She also wrote her thesis on nearby Sissinghurst Castle, “fascinated by how Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West shared the space”....
...What A 6,458 sq ft, 18th-century property built on the site of a medieval castle, with four bedrooms and six bathrooms. Facilities include a cinema room, billiard room and outdoor pool....
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